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Although the hunting horn has long since disappeared from the symphony orchestra (where the French horn does the horn calls, e.g., Wagner, Bach and Beethoven), its music is still kept alive by dedicated amateur groups such as the Parisian Le Cercle Dampierre et Bien Allé,* which turned up at Laarne last week. For the 200-odd such groups scattered throughout Europe, three French manufacturers produce some 400 hunting horns a year at about $35 apiece...
...heroes persuaded few in the ranks. Brooklyn Democrat John Rooney mockingly pointed out that in the 1952 Korean war crisis Taber, Martin, et al. had voted to cut military assistance, and complained, "I don't understand this switching around." Replied New York Republican Ken Keating: "There is one important difference between 1952 and now. We had a different group of advisers advising us then...
...first the signs were strong for Oilman Kerr, but because he had fought too hard for the natural-gas bill, roundly vetoed by the President (TIME, Jan. 30. et seq.), it was decided that Kerr was not the man for this year. Nor could the committee quite agree that the quick-tongued Humphrey should have center stage so early in the convention; he was too outspoken on civil rights, too vociferously in favor of Adlai Stevenson...
...longer an underfed, despairing Rat des Caves, Juliette has been married and divorced, has a two-year-old daughter, and last week was working on her fifth film (L'Homme et L'Enfant, with Eddie Constantine). She was planning a singing tour of South Africa, and had the prospect of a trip to Hollywood next winter to make a film with Danny Kaye. The wartime street days seemed far away. "They molded my life," she said, "but in my case, it's better not to look back...
Japan's long-distance scientific atom-bomb watchers (TIME, March 12 et seq.) were convinced that a nuclear weapon fired by the U.S. July 3 over Bikini was carried by a rocket, not an airplane, and that it exploded at a height of at least 22 miles...